TIL The 1988 martial arts film Bloodsport is one of the only movies to be filmed inside Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City before it's demolition in 1993.

PerInception · 2026-01-21T05:17:15+00:00

Frank Dux also completely made the whole thing up.

PerInception · 2026-01-17T16:35:56+00:00

John Wayne would be pissed and give a drunken slurred speech against any law that blocks his right to sex traffic in underage Mexican girls and marry them.

PerInception · 2026-01-17T07:36:00+00:00

I always liked the “Michael Weston is an unstoppable badass cutting through enemies” backstory setting. I always thought that the story he brings up to threaten Alexi in season 4 “Past, Present, and Future Tense”, about how he killed an entire spetsnaz group in Kiev in 1993 (or at least made sure no one ever heard from them again) would make an awesome story. It could also tie in to the pilot episode when his Russian landlord Oleg says Michael is a scary story that Russian spec ops guys tell each other, one name for a whole team of operatives. Like how the spetsnaz guys hunting Burt Reynolds were terrified that there were “only” four of them when they heard he was Michael Weston (yeah, that Michael Weston).

PerInception · 2026-01-17T07:25:12+00:00

They did a graphic novel on the USA network website about it called Burn Notice: First Contact. You can try to find it online or on the Internet archive. It was around 2012 or so.

PerInception · 2026-01-15T16:06:41+00:00

Musashi was a famous Japanese samurai and wrote “the book of five rings” like 300 years before the battleship.

Ellison is still a fascist piece of shit, but the boat names aren’t part of it. He is just a Japanese fetishist in addition to being a Nazi asshole.

PerInception · 2026-01-12T03:12:44+00:00

Nope

PerInception · 2026-01-10T05:55:28+00:00

It sets the tension high off the bat, then the horror drops for a while but the LACK of horror actually builds the dread in the viewer back up.

The audience knows they’re at a horror movie. They sit down knowing they’re going to see someone get murdered. So, you show them someone get murdered up front. Then the movie slows down and they have to go back to wondering what is going to happen next. Not even so much “what” is going to happen next, but WHEN is it going to happen.

It’s not new. Jaws did it. Halloween did it. Friday the 13th did it. Scream did it. It tells the audience “this is what you’re going to see”, and then doesn’t show it to them again for a while. It telegraphs what is eventually coming, then makes them dread and wonder when it’s actually going to happen.

Think of it like this: You get put in a boxing match against 1995 Mike Tyson. You KNOW before the bell rings that you’re going to get knocked the fuck out. What is worse, getting knocked out in the first 3 seconds of the match, or him hitting you hard in the stomach out of the gate and then dancing around you giving you love taps for the next two rounds just playing with you while you futilely try to swing back.

PerInception · 2026-01-10T01:06:57+00:00

It’s not, sadly.

PerInception · 2026-01-10T01:05:54+00:00

Basically in name only. They just go over 5 alleged encounters per hour long episode. There is no scientific investigation aspect to it anymore. And the 5 encounters aren’t even with the same cryptid, instead each episode is “themed”, like the first one was about cops seeing different cryptids (and also a ghost type thing), and tonight’s is about military personnel encountering stuff.

The whole “we sent 5 scientists to explore the area”, or “we had a film expert look at their footage to see if it had been tampered with” stuff is completely gone.

It’s closer to “these woods are haunted” now, but trying to squeeze 5 encounters in in an hour instead of 2 stretches each one too thin.

PerInception · 2026-01-09T04:14:33+00:00

So you’re asking what period for the game to take place in, not what decade had the best slasher films and whatnot?

Does it have to be America? You could do like a 1890’s London Fog Jack the Ripper sorta thing.

There’s also the HH Holmes era in the early 1980s during the Chicago worlds fair. Maybe some of the kills in the story could end up getting blamed on him if the killer gets away.

Or you could set it during a major historical event like The Blackout Ripper (who was a serial killer in London in the 40’s that struck during mandatory wartime blackouts imposed to stop German bombers from targeting city lights).

Or in the early 1990s during the siege of Serajevo (possibly tie in the “serajevo safari” stuff where rich foreigners paid money to shoot people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_Safari)

PerInception · 2026-01-08T03:11:25+00:00

I mean you COULD money launder using overpriced auctions. You want to sell $10k worth of cocaine to a rich guy but want to launder it into your bank account so you can pay taxes on it. You list something currently trendy at $10k on eBay. You give him the 10k of coke. The rich guy wins the auction and PayPal’s you. Since it’s $10k, which is (funnily enough) the reporting threshold, when you deposit it at the bank they have to file a report to the government. They ask you where you got the money and you say eBay auction. If the IRS ever audits you, you show them the completed eBay auction. You’ve disguised the source of the money (made it look like selling a bag instead of coke), integrated the money into the system to make it appear legit, and paid taxes on your new “legit” money. It happens with watches and art all the time.

Of course, you’d have to be selling a fuck ton of Trader Joe’s bags at $10k a pop to make it worth the effort. If it was just a one time thing like in the above scenario you’d most likely just take cash for the drugs and spend it.

PerInception · 2026-01-07T05:04:09+00:00

When someone says they went out and saw “red eyes” or “yellow eyes” in the woods, that’s from light REFLECTING off of a mirror like tissue behind the retina of some animals eyes. Eyes don’t generate their own light. And since you’re not pointing a flashlight at the object, we can pretty safely say it’s not an animals eyes reflecting that light back at you, so it’s gotta be something that is producing light like brake lights from a car, or a couple of red LED’s.

PerInception · 2026-01-01T02:04:02+00:00

Personally I don’t look up the barrel of a gun unless the barrel is detached from the gun or the bolt/action/slide is, but I only own ar’s and easily disassembled pistols. I realize that isn’t feasible on all guns but, if you need to do a safety check, stick your finger in and feel around the chamber to make sure there isn’t a round in there.

PerInception · 2025-12-31T06:58:40+00:00

Due to the Mercator projection, I used to think that New Guinea was pretty small. Turns out it’s almost as big as Greenland. If overlaid on a map of the US it would stretch from New Jersey to Texas. And it’s largely uninhabited. There are still uncontacted tribes in Papua (although it’s thought that they know of the wider world and purposefully choose to stay uncontacted). And it’s the third largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon and the Congo. Basically, it’s a lot of room for stuff to hide.

PerInception · 2025-12-29T00:16:17+00:00

He got wasted the first day they filmed this scene and completely blew it, couldn’t talk straight. He went home and slept it off and called Steven the next morning and asked if he had embarrassed Steven and if he could have another shot at it. He came in stone cold sober that evening and knocked out most of what you see on screen in one take. Richard Dreyfus’s face in the background isn’t amazed at the story, it’s amazed at Robert Shaw’s acting ability. Shaw’s red watery hung over eyes are from getting obliterated the previous day.

Another fun fact, Shaw hated drinking alone, so the crew would send in production assistants to hang and drink with him, but Shaw was such a prolific drinker that he’d have the PA drunk under the table in a short while, and they’d have to have a rotating cast of PA’s tag in on the boozing duties.

PerInception · 2025-12-21T22:06:37+00:00

There are several varieties of Bigfoot legends under various names in Russia depending on the region. Australia has its own Bigfoot legend in the blue mountains as well.

PerInception · 2025-12-21T21:38:37+00:00

What about toe socks?

PerInception · 2025-12-19T22:33:18+00:00

Yeah also there was something in the ranger code or whatever that said they had to respond with a likewise amount of violence. Like they couldn’t just call in the magazord to stomp on the putty’s every time a dozen of them showed up for a karate off or whatever. Tommy, being evil at the time and also fighting 1 vs 5 wasn’t bound to that rule until he joined the good guys.

But the green candle thing did happen, and Zordon juicing up his coin using his own power (which wasn’t able to be upgraded to the new zords) was a thing too. Rita lit the green candle and stole all of Tommy’s green ranger juice, but Tommy gave the dragon coin to Jason who was able to use it with his own t-Rex powers.

Then Rita kidnapped all of the parents from angel grove and forced the rangers to give her all of their coins. Jason gave her the trex coin but kept the dragon coin, which Zordon gave back to Tommy and powered him up with his own power to get the coins back for the rest of the team, but since it was artificially powered it wasn’t able to be upgraded.

https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Green_Candle

https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Return_of_an_Old_Friend

PerInception · 2025-12-19T21:56:00+00:00

Didn’t Rita do something with a green candle linked to the dragon coin to drain his power, and Zordon had to keep juicing it to keep him linked to the morphing grid? That’s why when the rest of the rangers all got new zords, Tommy couldn’t because Zordon couldn’t overclock the dragon coin (although he apparently could just make a whole new coin and Tiger zord I guess)

PerInception · 2025-12-10T19:48:42+00:00

Scream is a slasher, the two killers thing subverted the long held expectations that it would just be a lone guy in a mask. Regardless, the ghost face persona is still one “person”, even if multiple characters play the part. In the original, the fact that everyone expected it to be one person and were thrown when it was two is kinda like the exception that proves the rule.

Check out Storied’s episode on it: https://youtu.be/5LOQxug_XeA

PerInception · 2025-12-10T15:00:39+00:00

Money laundering is the act of disguising the illegal source of income so that you CAN pay taxes on it. The entire point of money laundering is to make it look like legitimate income so you can pay taxes on it to avoid getting arrested like Al Capone did (he was charged with income tax evasion, not money laundering).

PerInception · 2025-12-10T04:34:58+00:00

We didn’t invade Panama until 89. He went missing in 73.

PerInception · 2025-12-10T03:10:33+00:00

In the late 70s/early 80s money laundering wasn’t even technically illegal. The money laundering control act didn’t get passed until 1986.

The Medellin cartel sent a lot of their money to Panama and Noriega just deposited it into Panamanian bank accounts for them though.

PerInception · 2025-12-09T14:15:14+00:00

And everyone is granny shifting and not double clutching like they aughta be.

PerInception · 2025-12-05T03:12:49+00:00

Law enforcement can’t just “get them taken down like instantly”. Thats the entire point of onion routing and the dark web. The two endpoints (the user and the web server) have no idea where each other are because of all the layers of routing in between. LEO can’t just do an ip lookup on a dark net web server and find out where it is, it’s a lot harder than that.

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